TAIBBI/Rolling Stone: OWS's Beef: WALL STREET ISN'T WINNING --- IT'S CHEATING

[kpete]

OWS's Beef:

Wall Street Isn't Winning – It's Cheating

POSTED: OCTOBER 25, 9:26 AM ET

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And we hate the rich? Come on. Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning – they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.

We cheer for people who hit their own home runs in this country– not shortcut-chasing juicers like Bonds and McGwire, Blankfein and Dimon.

That's why it's so obnoxious when people say the protesters are just sore losers who are jealous of these smart guys in suits who beat them at the game of life. This isn't disappointment at having lost. It's anger because those other guys didn't really win. And people now want the score overturned.

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People don't want handouts. It's not a class uprising and they don't want civil war -- they want just the opposite. They want everyone to live in the same country, and live by the same rules. It's amazing that some people think that that's asking a lot.

MUCH MUCH MORE:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/owss-beef-wall-street-isnt-winning-its-cheating-20111025

[Merlot]

1. Oh So True...those other guys didn't really win

[Arctic Dave]

2. I think he may have summed it up in one simple sentence.

that should be a battle cry from pole to pole.


Wall Street Isn't Winning – It's Cheating

[Arctic Dave]

3. Kick.

[DirkGently]

4. Perfect.

[woo me with science]

5. Bullseye. Perfectly said. nt